This article was first published in New Scientist, 1 June 2016.
THIS is a curious time to publish a biography of M. King Hubbert. The story of how this brilliant but irascible Shell geologist accurately forecast in 1956 that US oil production would peak and go into terminal decline by 1970 is by now well worn. (more…)...

This article was first published in New Scientist, 27 July 2013.
DOOM-MONGERS of the climate variety might want to look away now – we apparently have more time to save the planet. A recent study published in Nature Geoscience suggests it will warm more slowly than feared, perhaps buying an extra decade for action. (more…)...

This piece was first published in the ODAC Newsletter, 14 December 2012.
The announcement on Thursday that the government is lifting its moratorium on fracking held all the surprise of turkey on the Christmas menu. (more…)...

This article was published in Middle East Oil & Gas Monitor, 16 October 2012.
The fate of the world economy depends critically on Iraqi oil, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published last week. (more…)...

This article was first published in gasworld in September 2012.
Everybody’s heard of the hydrogen economy, with its promise of limitless low carbon energy. But after decades of R&D, the dream seems scarcely any closer. Apparently still confounded by major technical challenges, the hydrogen economy remains an elusive mirage – always ‘just 10 years away’. (more…)...

This article was first published in New Scientist, 16 August 2012.
In 2007 James Schlesinger claimed the intellectual arguments around peak oil had all been won. With global oil production flat-lining and prices surging towards their all-time high of $147 per barrel, the former US Energy Secretary declared “we are all peakists now”. (more…)...

In his column of July 2nd George Monbiot recanted peak oil, claiming “the facts have changed, now we must change too”. Much of the article was spent regurgitating a recent report by Leonardo Maugeri, a former executive with the Italian oil company Eni, which Monbiot breathlessly reported “provides compelling evidence that a new oil boom has begun”. (more…)...

This article was first published in EurOil, 24 July 2012, and by
2degreesnetwork, 30 July 2012.
Move over peak oil, the world is heading for glut, according to a recent report by Leonardo Maugeri, a former executive with the Italian oil company Eni. (more…)...

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Clear a huge shift in public opinion in relation to Brexit. I would imagine most rational politicians will be thinking that come the next election their voters will want them to reflect their current views not those held in 2016

He did more than anyone else to deliver Brexit. He ran away when it became impossible to pretend it was going to end well. He thinks abusing Muslim women will still endear him to a base too thick & hate-filled to realise how completely he’s conned them. He’s probably right.